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LM5122: Compensation components for LM5122 used as LED Driver

Part Number: LM5122
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TIDA-00748

Hello All,

My customer is designing a Synch Boost LED Driver using LM5122 to power ultraviolet LEDs for the curing of bodywork materials.

Customer is looking for support if possible for the compensation circuit.

The circuit is similar to the one you proposed in TI-design TIDA-00748. However, customer has a doubt about the compensation of the control loop.

In fact, in your TI-design I see that the 0dB frequency is around 10KHz while with customer scheme I get a 0dB frequency of about 600Hz (therefore a very limited band). Customer did the measurement with a GDF and an oscilloscope following the document AN-1889.

Would you have a document explaining how to calculate the compensation components for the LM5122 used as a LED driver? In fact, following the formulas shown in the datasheet I cannot find correspondence with the components of the TI-design indicated above. I imagine that the presence of current feedback will change some passages.

Unlike the TI-design mentioned above, customer circuit works in these conditions:

VIN: from 17V to 20V
VOUT: 35V
IOUT: 2.7A
FSW: 400kHz

Furthermore the sensing of the load current is low-side rather than high-side.

Do you have any comments/advice here?

Many Thanks,

Antonio

  • Hi Antonio,

    Thank you for posting. The LM5122 is just regular boost controller, and the datahseet gives detailed transfer functions in the section of the design guidelines. You need a math tool like Mathcad to help you apply those equations in analyzing. Another method is to use pspice to simulate.

    Regarding the customer measurement, please make sure (1) their circuit is a close copy of the TIDA, and (2) their measurement is correct.

    Thanks,
    Youhao Xi, Applications Engineering
  • Hi Antonio,

    May I assume the issue resolved and we can close this thread now? You can always re-open it by following a new post.

    Thanks,
    Youhao